11 Responses to “Club informs students of Israeli-Palestinian conflict”

1. Jonathan "Yoni" Mann says:

   March 17, 2010 at 1:31 am

   Daily Titan, where is the voice of the other side?

   As students of academia, we should be asking ourselves, what is the other perspective? What are the opposing viewpoints?

   This article is filled with half-truths and blatant lies.

   The security fence is saddening, yet necessary. Barriers exist in many other countries including Spain, India, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the United States with Mexico.

   Has anyone asked themselves the question of why there is a barrier (3% wall, 97% fence) in the first place?

   Unfortunately, Palestinians are paying the price for the extremist terrorist Palestinian minority who have claimed the lives of over 950 Israeli civilians and continue to orchestrate terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians. I hope to see the day when the security barrier is no longer needed and both Israeli and Palestinian children can play together peacefully, side by side, for the future of our children and future generations.

   Before the security fence:
   Daily terrorist suicide bombings in coffee shops, buses, clubs, restaurants, weddings, and schools

   After the security fence:
   Hundreds of attacks have been thwarted, including ambulances with “pregnant” women strapped with suicide bombing vests.

   Coincidence? I think not.

   By simply accepting information you are being told without challenging the information or seeking out the other perspective, you fall victim to the same propaganda that Hitler fed the citizens of Germany about Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, Blacks and other minorities during World War II.
2. Joe D says:

   March 17, 2010 at 9:00 am

   “from 1967 to 2004 Israel invaded and took over Gaza and the West Bank”

   I couldn’t keep reading this filth after that sentence. What a joke. Article fails to mention that in 48, 67, 73 the arabs attacked the Israelis intending to destroy the Jews, and the Israelis were able to prevail. Had the arabs won the war and the Jews lost, there wouldn’t be an occupied Israel, there wouldn’t be a Jew left in the land. The arabs are running a PR scam to destroy Israel, Palestine didn’t become an identity until 1967. The Israelis should destroy al-aqsa, and continue to engage palestinian violence with the full force of it’s military.
3. silencedogood says:

   March 17, 2010 at 6:20 pm

   I have no problem with the wall. We need to do the same with Mexico. We need to stop sending these people money and fighting wars for them however. They are using this terrorism as an excuse to grab land like they used to holocaust to get a state in the first place. It’s none of our business and just causes us problems. The jews are just using us. As far as the pals they are just subhuman animals who send their children to blow themselves up in pizza parlors and fire random rockets into towns and then whine when the jews retaliate. We need to wash our hands of both of them.
4. sean says:

   March 17, 2010 at 9:25 pm

   WHY DOES ISRAEL USE CHECKPOINTS ???

   *Because terrorists have dressed as pregnant women.

   • Because terrorists have hidden in ambulances.

   Not all Palestinians are terrorists. But there’s no way to

   tell the difference between terrorists and peaceful

   Palestinians without stopping and searching people.

   After 9/11, the U.S. implemented more stringent

   security checks at airports. After the increase in suicide

   attacks, Israel has had to increase its vigilance, too.

   Israel has the right – and the obligation – to keep its

   citizens safe.

   There can be no peace

   without security.
5. Pedro says:

   March 18, 2010 at 3:18 am

   This report is a complete joke.
   The information presented is completely biased and worthless.
6. silencedogood says:

   March 22, 2010 at 4:53 pm

   Wow to every single comment…….
7. Sarah Carlson says:

   March 23, 2010 at 12:19 am

   Jonathan “Yoni” Mann says: “As students of academia, we should be asking ourselves, what is the other perspective? What are the opposing viewpoints?”

   The other perspective and other viewpoints are the same ones that we see headlining the corporate news every day. The same thing that is being regurgitated all over this response page. That Palestinians are terrorists and that the reason the wall (NOT A FENCE) is there is for Israel’s security. That is the opposing viewpoint. But if the WALL is for security, why doesn’t it follow the ‘green line?’ Why does it follow the water resources and cut off Palestinian villages from each other? If there needs to be a wall to protect Israelis, then why do Israelis keep moving into Palestinian villages, and forcing people out of their homes?

   “…extremist terrorist Palestinian minority who have claimed the lives of over 950 Israeli civilians…” That is in the past 61 years

   After Israel broke the ceasefire on November 4 2009 it killed over 1,400 Gazans in less than one month while during that same time 13 Israelis were killed (some by friendly fire). Israel bombed schools, hospitals and homes. It left tens of thousands of people homeless and then refused to let ANY humanitarian aid into the open-air prison that is Gaza.

   Israel claims “self-defense” when torturing the Palestinians, but what danger does a water well present. Why does the IDF destroy water wells? Or olive trees and fruit orchards? How is it in Israel’s best interest to demolish thousands of Palestinian homes and place hundreds of checkpoints between Palestinian villages?

   How anyone in their right mind can equate the Israeli government, a power equipped with unlimited funds and weapons from the biggest military power on Earth with home-made projectiles that hardly qualify as “rockets” and boys throwing stones at the soldiers who come to destroy their homes and lives?
8. Sarah Carlson says:

   March 23, 2010 at 12:44 am

   I also suggest to people who think that “Palestinian didn’t become an identity until 1967″ read some history. In 1897 Theodore Hertzl said at the First World Zionist Congress that the Zionist goal was: “to create for the Jewish people a home in Palestine secured by public law.” he then wrote in his diary, “At Basel I founded the Jewish State. If I said this out loud today, I would be answered by universal laughter. Perhaps in five years, and certainly in 50, everyone will know it.”

   In 1902 Hertzl wrote to Cecil Rhodes (the famous British colonizer): “You are being invited to help make history. That cannot frighten you not will you laugh at it. … It doesn’t involve Africa byt a piece of Asia Minor, not Englishmen but Jews. But had this been on your path, you would have done it by now. …How then do I happen to turn to you> Because it is something colonial.”

   I encourage everyone to read some actual history before spewing racist hate.
9. Roger says:

   March 25, 2010 at 1:30 pm

   Neither side in this conflict is innocent and the issues are very complicated. It is easy to cast this in terms of good and evil, bully and underdog, but such simplistic analysis does not do this issue justice. Still I find it important to make the distinction that one side fights with regard to international law, is a fully functioning representative democracy for all its citizens (regardless of race) and attempts to respect human rights on the battlefield. The other side does not respect human rights (honour killings), is run by religious extremists, and has a charter calling for the complete destruction of their opponent.

   Rascist hate is spewed by Hamas on a daily basis. They also spew hate towards homosexuals, feminists, and westerners. Jewish people like all people can also be racist but their society also teaches tolerance and respect. Values that you may find closer to your own Sarah Carlson.

   It is hard to justify starting the peace process and giving the Palestinians a state when they are not even willing to acknowledge the right of Israel to exist. Egypt did recognize Israel and peace has been maintained on that border for decades. The Oslo accords were an attempt to create a framework for peace thorugh a stepwise process of gaining trust and transferring power with the eventual goal of statehood. Unfortunately, the Palestinians did not do what they had agreed to do and the process did not go beyond the first few steps. The main obstacles were the settlements and continued terrorist attacks. Instead of negotiation, Palestinians have long since decided that violence and martyrs are the key to success.

   Even though I find this tactic very dishonourable, I don’t blame the Palestinians for going this route. Sacrificing your people to a stronger power to attract sympathy from even stronger powers has worked many times in the past. The Bulgarians, Greeks, Rumanians, and Armenians all successfully cast the Ottoman empire as “savage moslems” to gain statehood in the late 19th early 20th centuries. More recently Kosovo used this tactic to gain independance from Serbia. A good P.R campaign is necessary along with a sizable expat community that can pressure foreign governments.

   A notable failure were the Tamils from Sri Lanka. They gave it a good shot with worldwide protests but the Sri Lankan government was prepared to go isolationist in order to win the war which they did. Peace will finally occur on that island of tears.

   Israel and the Palestinians both have good PR campaigns. The Palestinians appeal to western liberals (despite their glaring anti-western attitudes) since liberals care for all oppressed and victimized peoples. They root for the underdog and look for blame elsewhere. Conservatives recognize the democratic and human rights values that Israel offers and sees that the blame is largely self inflicted by the Palestinians.
10. Mohammed T. says:

    April 2, 2010 at 3:02 pm

    I find it quite appalling that anyone would try and justify isolating a people from the basic necessities in life; water, electricity, food, and hospitals to say the least. The fact that fences are erected elsewhere in the world, in no way justifies the building of a 8 meter high wall, no control of their own air space and coastal lines.

    While both parties are to blame here partly, there is an extreme imbalance in forces and power.

    Israel has been a constant violator of Human Rights, has been occupying Palestinian land and claiming is as their own. East Jerusalem is only the most recent and well exposed example, according to Prime Minister Netanyahu, all of Jerusalem is Israeli’s land, are they unaware of International Law which prohibits the acquisition of land by force? Or do they feel that they are above any law and can spit in the face of any governing body other than their own.

    The US has been the immediate financier of this country and everything that Israel does is only because the US is at their side. But has the Israeli government turned it back to the US? Israel’s days of going as an unnoticed repeated offender of Human Rights is coming to an end. They have no interest in peace, if peace is achieved, what are they to do with their 300 nuclear war heads, their millions of US dollars being spent on Offensive (not defensive) wars. Israel will not rest till all of Palestine is under their immediate and unilateral control.
11. arab muslim says:

    August 9, 2010 at 9:05 am

    Greetings to all. The reasons for Arab-Israeli conflict is the occupation of Palestine.
    Palestine Arab Islamic state like the rest of the Arab and Islamic states surrounding
    Them. Means that there are Jews and Zionists in Palestine a big mistake, because this entity
    Zionist is not consistent with the surrounding area (such as language, customs, traditions and religion)
    The only solution to end the Arab-Israeli conflict is the expulsion of Jews from Palestine
    All of Palestine. The Jewish people will not rest and will not feel comfortable and stability
    But if it gets out of Palestine and the Middle East completely. If people continue to
    Jews in Palestine and the Middle East, the death and destruction will continue.
    Palestine Arab Islamic state and will remain

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